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Ozarks At Large
The Fayetteville Farmer's Market heads into the home stretch and the Ozark Slow Food fundraiser approaches.
October is American Archives Month. This will be noted tomorrow afternoon at three inside Mullins Library. Keynote speakers for this event devoted to history will be a pair of teenage historians. Sarah and Emma Bailin attend Central High in Little Rock and have been making short documentaries since they were eleven years old. They'll screen their film "Return to Sender" about the 1980 Cuban refugee crisis at Fort Chaffee and how that event changed Arkansas' political landscape.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large we report on how you can see your ballot before Election Day, why bumble bees make such fascinating research subjects, what to expect from this week's gathering at the University of Arkansas devoted to breast cancer research and more.It is hard to imagine Eugene Sargent's mind or his hands ever rest. He is a sculptor and works with wood, metals, cement, and other materials. He creates furniture that is art and art that is furniture. He paints and draws. He writes. He makes computer cases out of aluminum and flashlights out of old tent poles. So it makes sense that his studio near Lincoln in Washington County is a pretty astonishing creation, too.
The final poll conducted by talkbusiness.net and Hendrix College before next week's election has been completed. Roby gives us the results.
On today's fundraising edition of Ozarks at Large, we learn about rural fire associations and how they operate. Also, Arts Live Theatre adapts "Night of the Living Dead" for younger audiences, Becca previews an exhibition by a Hurricane Katrina survivor and more. Mark Landon Smith and Jules Taylor stop by the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to preview Arts Live Theatre's upcoming production of “Night of the Living Dead.”
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, December 13, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, singer/songwriter Joe Pug stops by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. Plus, Becca Martin Brown gets us caught up on what's been rescheduled for this weekend.
In just more than a decade, Mark Landon Smith, director of Arts Live Theatre, has taken the program to new heights. Becca Martin Brown has more on their upcoming season.
Here are our ten clips inspired by monster trucks...well, all monster---no trucks.
1. Bobby Pickett sings Monster Mash.
2. Boris Karloff and O.P. Heggie in an iconic (if often misquoted) scene from The Bride of Frankenstein.
3. Warren Zevon's song Werewolves of London.
4. Maria Ouspenskaya and Lon Chaney, Jr. in The Wolf Man.
5. Godzilla, the song by Blue Oyster Cult.
6. Godzilla, the fire-breathing monster.
7. Edgar Winter and the classic rock instrumental, Frankenstein.
8. King Kong's roar. You get credit if you guessed a lion's roar played backwards...because that's what it is.
9. Imagine Dragons' song Monster.
10. Bela Lugosi's Dracula doesn't lie...he just doesn't tell the whole truth.
Apologies to: Lon Chaney, Sr. (silent films are not good Sunday Montage fodder), the Creature From the Black Lagoon and Of Monsters and Men. Maybe next time.
The Arkansas gross domestic product grew in 2013, particularly in some unexpected sectors. With one of the architects of the Arkansas Private Option defeated in a primary runoff this week, the future of the Medicaid expansion is in doubt, but Governor Mike Beebe is undeterred. Plus, this weekend marks the 149th anniversary of the end of slavery in the U.S., and the 17th annual NWA Juneteenth Celebration will mark the occasion in Springdale.
"Ten Million Slaves" Otis Taylor
Michael Tilley, from The City Wire, talks about the latest details regarding an acquisition of Hillshire.
